Sam Fowles pens 'Brexit Britain’s feud with European courts: this is not taking back control' for The Conversation

8 September 2017

Sam Fowles, Postgraduate Research Student at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), writes forTheConversation aboutthenew mechanismsthe UK will need to settle EU disputes after Brexit. CurrentlytheCourt of Justice oftheEU (CJEU)interprets EU law forindividuals, EUinstitutions, and member states.“Thegovernment’s best proposal is some form of loose association withtheCJEU. This manages to offer allthedisadvantages of membership ofthecourt but with fewer benefits. By moving away fromthecourt,theUK will no longer be able to appoint judges or advocates general (who submit legal arguments to high levels of scrutiny), British citizens will no longer be able to accessthecourt. Yet all forms of association proposed bythegovernment wouldinvolvetheUK being bound,insome way, bythecourts decisions.TheUK will thus be committed to rules we have no sayinmaking,” writes Fowles.